Comments on: Baby Namer’s Remorse? When the name you picked just doesn’t feel righthttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right
baby namesSat, 10 Dec 2016 01:20:10 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Baby Namer’s Remorse: A bad name story – Baby Name Blog - Nameberryhttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-796798
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:27:55 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-796798[…] blogger Michelle Shepherd–Barron tells her baby namer’s remorse story–and after she tried to do everything […]
]]>By: bananas4ryannahttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-646278
Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:32:52 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-646278I’m not wild about my son’s name. It was a compromise and I just think it’s “blah”. I adore my son and he’s made me love the name on HIM, but I wish I would’ve fought harder for some of my choices. I also wish I would’ve added a family name as a middle name, even if it was a 3 name situation. Oh well. *sigh*
]]>By: specimenMeghttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-605884
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:15:43 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-605884I don’t regret my nearly two year old daughter’s name at all… we named her Valenteen Elise. While “Valenteen” does not always get a 100% positive reception, I think it suits her and we really wanted an elegant but unique name. My only trouble with it is the spelling. I didn’t want to spell it like “Valentine” because of the holiday, which we don’t celebrate… plus it would constantly be pronounced differently. The Russian spelling, Valentin, didn’t look right at the time either. I didn’t want people pronouncing her name “Val-in-TIN”. So we went with the phonetic spelling. I am still unsure of it, and wonder if I should have gone with Valentin after all. My favorite spelling is Valentyn or Valentine, but it looks like the holiday again. Most of the time we call her Val or Vali… I go back and forth on how to spell Vali, too. Vally? Valley? Val’e? 😛
]]>By: kitchi1http://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-509886
Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:05:01 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-509886I know this is kind of about a childs name that you regretted, but I regret naming my ferret Rosie. I don’t even like that name that much, so why did I name her it? I don’t know. Maybe because I was fed up with thinking of a name. (I should have came here) She was named Squirt, then Angelina “Angie”, then Rosie. Which I totally regret. But, she knows her name and it’s been here name for almost over a year, so I obviously can’t change it.
]]>By: seltavankesthttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-434553
Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:49:07 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-434553I have a lot of regrets about my own name. I was named under quite odd circumstances, where my mum heard my name in a dream, and then everyone told her it was too hard to pronounce, so she and my dad changed it to something that, in my opinion and experience, is even harder to pronounce. I’ve now been through 22 years of being called whatever people bastardise my name into and the fact that nobody can spell it (had to have my organ donor details changed 3 times due to wrong spelling of my name). The funny thing is that my mum and dad don’t even pronounce it the same. It’s Ileeya, pronounced eye (as in eyeball) lee-uh. My mum pronounces it the same as me (stress on the ee), my Dad puts stress on the i. The most common incorrect spellings are Iieeya or Lleeya, even though I always write my name in caps on forms to be clear. I’ve been called everything from Alisha to Elsa, even though there isn’t even an s in my name. I really, really wish my mum had just gone with the name from her dream, which was Aellia (ay-ell-ee-uh), which I think would probably only be pronounced wrong as “ay-lee-uh”, which is close enough to my name now that I could probably. Frustratingly, people also tend to think my name is Aaliyah when I introduce myself. My middle name isn’t really usable in my eyes, either (Marie, my French grandmother’s name, but it would just be pronounced in the English way if I used it).

I went through a string of self-created nicknames, and now use Eve, on the basis that nobody can get a 3-letter name too wrong (still been called Evie, which I hate). I’m now strongly considering changing my name to Eve and keeping Aellia as a middle name when I get married.

My fiancé and I have been talking about names for years, just because we don’t want to get to the point in our lives where we’re ready to have children and realise we don’t have any names in mind. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to help over-analysing them to see if they can be pronounced/spelled wrong by the common person. I really like Etienne, for example, but when I told him, he asked me to repeat it, and I just couldn’t help feeling it wouldn’t work. I love unusual and old names, but I really can’t face putting my children through years of repeating their name over and over again and having to correct official documents because it’s been spelled wrong.

]]>By: Kenzihttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-430854
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:53:34 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-430854-i have two daughters named Arabella and Gabriella. people are still mad at me about this ( good thing they go by Gabry and Bella). -i gave my son Hanson the middle name Cullen because it means ‘handsome’ twilight has ruined that for me.
-My son is named Shephard and people think that’s mean. i love it still, but people often spell it with an ‘e’ at the end instead of an ‘a’
-My daughters name is Mykaela and we call her Aela. People can never spell her name right
-my baby, Nolle (Nol-lee) is always being called ‘Nol’ when people read her name
]]>By: Kat_Taylorhttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-416916
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:43:41 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-416916Try being a Kaitlyn. It sucks. I tend to go by Kat, and my parents know I hate the name, but I’ve been thinking of changing it for a while.
]]>By: emilymaryjanehttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-362954
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:47:12 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-362954Well I don’t have a child but my sister is so upset. She named her baby Sophia and there are about eight at her playgroup. And three Sophies
]]>By: kimpossible7168http://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-223221
Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:46:02 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-223221I have six kids and have(or had) some sort of problem with all their names but my oldest’s. My olsest’s name is Anthony James. I like it, my husband did not. He wanted a junior, John Henry or at least John. No way! We agreed if we had a boy, I named him whatever I wanted. If we had a girl, he named her whatever he wanted, Ashley Yvonne. Thankfully, we had a boy. He is 22 now.

Two years later… he agreed, if we have a boy, he won’t be named John. We were expecting a boy, so had not picked a girl’s name. He would be Robert Michael. We had a girl. People wanted to know her name, so we just grabbed the baby name book and chose the first name that we both thought was OK. Her name is Cristina Rochelle. Most people add the “H” to her name. Her name is long, so in school, her official papers always said Cristina Roch. Not good. We chose to spell her name without the “H” because we have a Hispanic last name. Most people call her Cristina, we call her Chella. She is 20 and likes her name, minus the whole roch thing.

Two years later, having another boy. Back to the junior thing. I was set on Joseph Daniel. Compromise….John Joseph Daniel…never called him John in my life.

Fast forward almost five years… Really wanted a girl. Thought I was having a girl. Ultrasound unable to determine. Another boy!! A lot of problems with the name so I named him Dominic Alexander. My sister-in-law was going to use Alexander for the middle name of her son due in 3 months. Husband had some issue with Alexander( I think he hated Dominic too). I stressed so much over the name, I went to the hospital when he was six days old and changed it. Dominic Matthew just turned 13. His name is my favorite of all my kids. I don’t like the nn Dom so much and only now does anyone call him that. The nn family uses is Nico or Nic.

Sixteen months later… Girl this time. I really liked Serena Celeste but, Serena Williams was starting to be all over the news at that time. I decided against it. We, shall I say, I had a couple of names I was thinking about. The lady at the hospital kept bugging me for a name for the birth certificate, I kept sending her away. We sort of decided on Julia but I was not sure of a middle name. That pesky birth certificate lady came back when I was visiting family and the husband gave her the name Julia Marie. I could not settle for that. When she was four days old, back to the hospital. Now Julia Miranda Marie is 11. I didn’t get rid of Marie because the reason my husband chose it is because it is one of my middle names. Kinda sweet.

Now for my biggest mistake, the name I don’t like to this day. My son is 8. He was overdue and I was being induced on my husband’s grandfather’s birthday(he loved him very much) who had passes away. There was a lot of drama in our life at the time. Baby names was not a hot topic for us at the time. I had chosen the name Jacob if Julia had been a boy. Mind you, I had never used a name that I had chosen for a previous baby. He wanted Jacob. It is so popular that I could not stand the thought of it. Our son was not born on his great grandfather’s birthday… he missed it by an hour and 26 minutes. My husband
decided he wanted to honor him by giving our son his name, Rosario!!!! Are you kidding. Rosario! I refused. Nice sentiment but, no way am I giving my son that name. We agreed to give him the first name Jacob(Not really,but whatever) but not the middle name Rosario. I left the hospital without naming him. There was a ton of tension in the house in the days to follow so, I asked my 3 and 4 year old what they liked. One like Jeremy, the other Michael so, that is what I named him..Jacob Jeremy Michael. I hate it to this very day and wished I had waited longer to decide. Some advice, don’t let your 3 and 4 year old name your baby. Had he been a girl she would have been Emilia Angelina or Emilia Grace.

]]>By: ChicNamdBrandonhttp://nameberry.com/blog/baby-namers-remorse-when-the-name-you-picked-just-doesnt-feel-right#comment-221518
Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:32:59 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=9539#comment-221518Well my oldest’s name fits her perfectly, my youngest however turned out to be more of a challenge. Her name Aria Ines never quite fit her. So as a baby we started calling her Growley because she was always soooo noisy. It caught on well with her 2 yr old sister who took it and ran with it. Well at about 6 months I KNEW I couldn’t call her Aria I intended to call her Ari as a nn. So I thought well I’ll call her Ines. No one called her Ines but me and I only did sometimes, now she’s almost 3 and barely knows her name. I never really pushed it with my DH because I can’t stand the way he says it (he’s a southerner and I’m a northerner.) So he pronounces it Eye-Nez and I pronounce it Ee-nes. Language barrier for sure. But as of now we are on the same page thankfully.
]]>